New Zealand spent 14 years removing pests and weeds from Abel Tasman; the national park now has flourishing native wildlife and restored forest
- AI Representational ImageThe Abel Tasman National Park can still look much as visitors might expect from a New Zealand wilderness: forest, rivers, beaches and a coastline opening onto the sea.
- Yet beneath that familiar scenery, the park has undergone a long ecological repair.
- According to the Project Janszoon official website it began in 2012, parts of the park had lost much of their natural richness to introduced predators and invasive plants.
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- AI Representational ImageThe Abel Tasman National Park can still look much as visitors might expect from a New Zealand wilderness: forest, rivers, beaches and a coastline opening onto the sea.
- Yet beneath that familiar scenery, the park has undergone a long ecological repair.
- According to the Project Janszoon official website it began in 2012, parts of the park had lost much of their natural richness to introduced predators and invasive plants.
Sources: Times of India